aijuka

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV aijuka
Brazilian standard aijhuka
New Tribes aijuca

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

aijuka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

  1. (transitive) to strike, to hit (someone with something)
  2. (transitive) to ritually whip (someone)
  3. (transitive) to smite, to kill (someone) by striking them

References[edit]

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aijuku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “aijhukuudu”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “wayhyu'ka”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-aiʔhuka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths[4], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 120:aijucudu